posted by dennisn on August 31st, 2011 at 4:42PM
Don't let it go over her head -- don't give her any opportunity to evade her irrationality. Reason/Rationality is nothing special, it's just logic -- I'm sure she can understand that. Jump into real tangible examples of her absurdity -- remind her of the tree of life -- both the DNA tree, and the fossil tree, etc. With a sprinkling of astro-physics -- real things that fly in the face of her fairy tales.